related works
Concerto : for guitar, orchestra and concertino / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Guitar and orchestra
Scoring:
gtr-solo picc/fl ob cl-b/cl h tpt-picc 2perc cemb trb-b tb-b str
Die nächtliche Heerschau : op. 23, 1922, m.s. van 1943 / ballade van Carl Loewe, ork. Willem Pijper
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 2223 4230 timp 3perc str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 2222 4231 3perc hp str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2222 2220 str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans